TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching Note—Innovating the Curriculum
T2 - Bringing History Back Into Social Work Education
AU - Abramovitz, Mimi
AU - Curran, Laura
AU - Harty, Justin S.
AU - Toft, Jessica
AU - Tomczak, Stephen Monroe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Council on Social Work Education.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - History, the major storehouse of information, informs us about the important relationship between people and society and increases our understanding of basic societal values and institutional arrangements. A recent New York Times op-ed described “The Dangerous Decline of the Historical Profession.” Likewise for historical content in social work education, exacerbated by the 1970s‘ rise of neoliberalism and the profession’s long marginalization of historical research and teaching. The Social Welfare History Group renews its call to bring historical content back into social work education and to correct its deep-seated race, class, gender, and colonizing distortions. To ensure that all social work courses include history, we can revive the value historical knowledge; prepare a cadre of historical researchers and instructors; financially support emerging scholars and develop a pipeline of history-informed faculty to teach the next generation of social workers.
AB - History, the major storehouse of information, informs us about the important relationship between people and society and increases our understanding of basic societal values and institutional arrangements. A recent New York Times op-ed described “The Dangerous Decline of the Historical Profession.” Likewise for historical content in social work education, exacerbated by the 1970s‘ rise of neoliberalism and the profession’s long marginalization of historical research and teaching. The Social Welfare History Group renews its call to bring historical content back into social work education and to correct its deep-seated race, class, gender, and colonizing distortions. To ensure that all social work courses include history, we can revive the value historical knowledge; prepare a cadre of historical researchers and instructors; financially support emerging scholars and develop a pipeline of history-informed faculty to teach the next generation of social workers.
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U2 - 10.1080/10437797.2023.2290481
DO - 10.1080/10437797.2023.2290481
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85181706302
SN - 1043-7797
VL - 60
SP - 473
EP - 479
JO - Journal of Social Work Education
JF - Journal of Social Work Education
IS - 3
ER -